Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 70 86
Rank change year-on-year -21 +16 -31
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 2,073 1,851 2,391
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.97% 3.73% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% 4.17% 3.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,444 897 1,634
10th Percentile £45,456 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.97%
75th Percentile £93,634 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,750
% change year-on-year -7.14% +11.55% -7.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 77,565 44,386 67,277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.71% 89.40% 81.08%
Number of salaries quoted 53,403 25,236 43,866
10th Percentile £30,580 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,170 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.40% -3.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 8 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 8 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -20 1,816 £75,000 +3.45% 1,122
UK excluding London -34 1,129 £65,000 -7.14% 517
Work from Home -23 895 £65,500 -6.43% 544
London -15 805 £85,000 +3.03% 718
North of England -38 377 £70,000 - 157
South East +26 314 £65,000 -7.14% 141
North West -49 201 £75,000 +7.14% 82
South West -28 132 £57,500 -4.17% 55
Midlands -48 108 £67,500 - 62
North East +21 96 £65,000 +18.18% 30
Yorkshire -9 80 £65,000 -7.14% 45
West Midlands -33 77 £80,000 +14.29% 38
Northern Ireland -18 62 £60,000 +33.33% 22
Wales -16 59 £68,750 +32.21% 17
East of England -32 46 £60,100 -3.84% 18
Scotland -56 33 £60,000 -24.44% 50
East Midlands -52 30 £64,000 +6.67% 24
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 39 (1.88%) Confluence
2 27 (1.30%) Apache Spark
3 16 (0.77%) Apache
4 15 (0.72%) CMS
5 14 (0.68%) IIS
6 13 (0.63%) Camunda
7 9 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.39%) JBoss
8 8 (0.39%) WordPress
9 7 (0.34%) nginx
9 7 (0.34%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.24%) Drupal
12 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
12 4 (0.19%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.14%) DNN
13 3 (0.14%) GeoServer
13 3 (0.14%) Kentico
13 3 (0.14%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 11 (0.53%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.48%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.24%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.096%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.048%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
3 4 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.096%) Shopify
6 1 (0.048%) Eikon
6 1 (0.048%) RMDS
6 1 (0.048%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,066 (51.42%) AWS
2 892 (43.03%) Azure
3 343 (16.55%) GCP
4 267 (12.88%) Serverless
5 249 (12.01%) GitHub
6 193 (9.31%) SaaS
7 179 (8.63%) Azure DevOps
8 140 (6.75%) AWS Lambda
9 124 (5.98%) Amazon S3
10 111 (5.35%) Amazon EKS
11 104 (5.02%) AWS CloudFormation
12 103 (4.97%) GitHub Copilot
13 93 (4.49%) Azure Service Bus
14 83 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
15 71 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
16 69 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
17 68 (3.28%) Amazon SQS
18 63 (3.04%) Azure AKS
19 52 (2.51%) PaaS
20 50 (2.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 55 (2.65%) Broadband
2 26 (1.25%) Network Security
3 15 (0.72%) MQTT
4 13 (0.63%) DMARC
4 13 (0.63%) DNS
5 8 (0.39%) Internet
5 8 (0.39%) VPN
6 7 (0.34%) AMQP
6 7 (0.34%) Firewall
6 7 (0.34%) HTTP
6 7 (0.34%) Hyperconnected
7 6 (0.29%) DHCP
7 6 (0.29%) RFID
7 6 (0.29%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.24%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (0.19%) LTE
10 3 (0.14%) Modbus
10 3 (0.14%) NAS
10 3 (0.14%) SAN
11 2 (0.096%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 309 (14.91%) MongoDB
2 234 (11.29%) PostgreSQL
3 203 (9.79%) NoSQL
4 166 (8.01%) Azure SQL Database
5 159 (7.67%) Elasticsearch
6 125 (6.03%) MySQL
7 120 (5.79%) SQL Server
8 95 (4.58%) Relational Database
9 68 (3.28%) Redis
10 52 (2.51%) DynamoDB
11 49 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
12 29 (1.40%) Big Data
13 19 (0.92%) RDBMS
14 15 (0.72%) BigQuery
14 15 (0.72%) Pinecone
15 14 (0.68%) Data Lake
16 12 (0.58%) Db2
16 12 (0.58%) DTS
17 10 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
18 8 (0.39%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 271 (13.07%) Git
2 189 (9.12%) GitLab
3 163 (7.86%) Jenkins
4 64 (3.09%) JUnit
5 63 (3.04%) JIRA
6 59 (2.85%) TeamCity
7 45 (2.17%) Cucumber
8 39 (1.88%) Mockito
9 36 (1.74%) Cypress.io
10 33 (1.59%) Claude Code
11 32 (1.54%) Maven
12 24 (1.16%) Selenium
13 22 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 18 (0.87%) CircleCI
15 17 (0.82%) SonarQube
16 15 (0.72%) Postman
16 15 (0.72%) Spock
17 13 (0.63%) JMeter
17 13 (0.63%) REST Assured
18 12 (0.58%) Vite
General
1 522 (25.18%) Finance
2 404 (19.49%) Social Skills
3 217 (10.47%) Public Sector
4 188 (9.07%) Banking
5 151 (7.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 149 (7.19%) Law
7 134 (6.46%) Analytical Skills
8 122 (5.89%) Retail
9 82 (3.96%) Legal
10 64 (3.09%) Financial Institution
11 59 (2.85%) Marketing
12 46 (2.22%) Back Office
13 32 (1.54%) Aerospace
14 30 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
15 28 (1.35%) Legal Technology
16 23 (1.11%) Games
17 21 (1.01%) Advertising
18 20 (0.96%) Front Office
19 17 (0.82%) Telecoms
20 15 (0.72%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 766 (36.95%) Developer
2 496 (23.93%) Senior
3 380 (18.33%) Software Engineer
4 341 (16.45%) Lead
5 289 (13.94%) Architect
6 205 (9.89%) .NET Developer
7 181 (8.73%) Senior Developer
8 165 (7.96%) Full-Stack Developer
9 153 (7.38%) Java Developer
10 137 (6.61%) Java Engineer
11 125 (6.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 120 (5.79%) Senior Software Engineer
13 105 (5.07%) Solutions Architect
14 100 (4.82%) Principal Engineer
15 84 (4.05%) Software Developer
16 79 (3.81%) Lead Software Engineer
17 73 (3.52%) DevOps Engineer
18 72 (3.47%) Lead Developer
19 57 (2.75%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
20 55 (2.65%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 556 (26.82%) .NET
2 444 (21.42%) React
3 424 (20.45%) Node.js
4 349 (16.84%) Spring
5 316 (15.24%) Spring Boot
6 307 (14.81%) RESTful
7 281 (13.56%) REST
8 259 (12.49%) Kafka
9 245 (11.82%) ASP.NET
10 227 (10.95%) .NET Core
11 220 (10.61%) AngularJS
12 214 (10.32%) Vue
13 198 (9.55%) ASP.NET Core
14 117 (5.64%) Blazor
15 105 (5.07%) ASP.NET Web API
16 100 (4.82%) .NET Framework
17 95 (4.58%) HTML
18 92 (4.44%) CSS
19 80 (3.86%) RabbitMQ
20 75 (3.62%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 640 (30.87%) Cloud Native
2 361 (17.41%) Distributed Systems
3 144 (6.95%) Product Ownership
4 109 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
5 102 (4.92%) Enterprise Software
6 74 (3.57%) Onboarding
7 53 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
8 45 (2.17%) AI Agents
9 43 (2.07%) Virtual Team
10 42 (2.03%) Public Cloud
11 40 (1.93%) Video\Live Streaming
12 36 (1.74%) Over-the-Top Content
12 36 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
13 32 (1.54%) e-Learning
14 27 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
15 26 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
16 23 (1.11%) Algorithms
16 23 (1.11%) Data Structures
16 23 (1.11%) Management Information System
17 20 (0.96%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 135 (6.51%) Linux
2 50 (2.41%) Windows
3 22 (1.06%) Unix
4 21 (1.01%) CentOS
4 21 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.34%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.34%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.29%) Android
7 5 (0.24%) AIX
8 4 (0.19%) Debian
8 4 (0.19%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.096%) VMS
10 1 (0.048%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,083 (52.24%) CI/CD
2 989 (47.71%) Agile
3 742 (35.79%) Software Engineering
4 731 (35.26%) DevOps
5 584 (28.17%) Full-Stack Development
6 505 (24.36%) Mentoring
7 443 (21.37%) Event-Driven
8 438 (21.13%) AI
8 438 (21.13%) Containerisation
9 414 (19.97%) Test Automation
10 412 (19.87%) Continuous Improvement
11 398 (19.20%) Infrastructure as Code
12 380 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
13 292 (14.09%) Scrum
14 284 (13.70%) Technical Leadership
15 277 (13.36%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 253 (12.20%) TDD
17 235 (11.34%) Clean Code
18 227 (10.95%) Architectural Patterns
19 220 (10.61%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 696 (33.57%) Java
2 575 (27.74%) C#
3 507 (24.46%) SQL
4 490 (23.64%) Python
5 466 (22.48%) JavaScript
6 381 (18.38%) TypeScript
7 113 (5.45%) Go
8 54 (2.60%) Ruby
9 46 (2.22%) Scala
10 45 (2.17%) C++
11 42 (2.03%) PHP
12 41 (1.98%) Bash
13 28 (1.35%) PowerShell
14 27 (1.30%) Bicep
15 23 (1.11%) Kotlin
15 23 (1.11%) Rust
16 21 (1.01%) C
17 20 (0.96%) PL/SQL
18 13 (0.63%) Groovy
19 12 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 287 (13.84%) Security Cleared
2 193 (9.31%) SC Cleared
3 189 (9.12%) Degree
4 84 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 80 (3.86%) DV Cleared
6 72 (3.47%) AWS Certification
7 44 (2.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 28 (1.35%) CISSP
9 26 (1.25%) Azure Certification
10 17 (0.82%) Master's Degree
11 14 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (0.68%) CISM
11 14 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
12 10 (0.48%) DBS Check
12 10 (0.48%) PhD
13 9 (0.43%) MBA
14 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 5 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.19%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 211 (10.18%) QA
2 85 (4.10%) Accessibility
3 40 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 37 (1.78%) GDPR
5 34 (1.64%) WCAG
6 20 (0.96%) SOC 2
7 19 (0.92%) NIST
7 19 (0.92%) PCI DSS
8 17 (0.82%) NCSC
9 15 (0.72%) GRC
10 10 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
10 10 (0.48%) Data Quality
11 9 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 8 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.24%) PSD2
15 5 (0.24%) SEPA
16 4 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 3 (0.14%) IFRS
System Software
1 598 (28.85%) Docker
2 33 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.24%) NDS
4 5 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.19%) Firmware
5 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.14%) KVM
7 1 (0.048%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 631 (30.44%) Kubernetes
2 363 (17.51%) Terraform
3 111 (5.35%) Ansible
4 98 (4.73%) Grafana
5 56 (2.70%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.21%) Argo
7 20 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (0.87%) Puppet
9 17 (0.82%) Kibana
10 13 (0.63%) Cilium
11 8 (0.39%) HP Fortify
12 6 (0.29%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.24%) Podman
14 4 (0.19%) Packer
15 3 (0.14%) Kubeflow
16 2 (0.096%) MIIS
16 2 (0.096%) Opsgenie
16 2 (0.096%) Rancher
17 1 (0.048%) Fluentd
17 1 (0.048%) Nagios
Vendors
1 330 (15.92%) Microsoft
2 95 (4.58%) Google
3 68 (3.28%) Oracle
4 39 (1.88%) OpenAI
5 36 (1.74%) Splunk
5 36 (1.74%) Typelevel
6 27 (1.30%) Dynatrace
7 23 (1.11%) AppDynamics
7 23 (1.11%) IBM
8 21 (1.01%) Databricks
9 20 (0.96%) Okta
10 19 (0.92%) ForgeRock
11 14 (0.68%) OneLogin
12 13 (0.63%) Adobe
12 13 (0.63%) Salesforce
12 13 (0.63%) SAP
12 13 (0.63%) SendGrid
13 12 (0.58%) ServiceNow
14 10 (0.48%) Red Hat
15 8 (0.39%) OpenText